This article explores the impact of recent trends towards privatism through a study of neighbourhood governance in Baltimore and Bristol and considers its
implications for the big society in the UK. The self-help ideology ...

Although there is a growing body of international literature on the feminisation of politics and the policy process and, as New Labour's term of office progresses, a rapidly growing series of texts around New Labour's ...

Introduction: Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local Governance (Aulakh et al, 2002; Hastings, 2003). Their role is crucial to the success of a number of other government policies ...